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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:05:09 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/19] mm: Create/affine kswapd to its preferred node
On Tue 17-09-24 00:49:18, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> kswapd is dedicated to a specific node. As such it wants to be
> preferrably affine to it, memory and CPUs-wise.
>
> Use the proper kthread API to achieve that. As a bonus it takes care of
> CPU-hotplug events and CPU-isolation on its behalf.
>
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 8 +++-----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index bd489c1af228..00a7f1e92447 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -7139,10 +7139,6 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
> unsigned int highest_zoneidx = MAX_NR_ZONES - 1;
> pg_data_t *pgdat = (pg_data_t *)p;
> struct task_struct *tsk = current;
> - const struct cpumask *cpumask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id);
> -
> - if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask))
> - set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpumask);
>
> /*
> * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
> @@ -7311,13 +7307,15 @@ void __meminit kswapd_run(int nid)
>
> pgdat_kswapd_lock(pgdat);
> if (!pgdat->kswapd) {
> - pgdat->kswapd = kthread_run(kswapd, pgdat, "kswapd%d", nid);
> + pgdat->kswapd = kthread_create_on_node(kswapd, pgdat, nid, "kswapd%d", nid);
> if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)) {
> /* failure at boot is fatal */
> pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d,ret=%ld\n",
> nid, PTR_ERR(pgdat->kswapd));
> BUG_ON(system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING);
> pgdat->kswapd = NULL;
> + } else {
> + wake_up_process(pgdat->kswapd);
> }
> }
> pgdat_kswapd_unlock(pgdat);
> --
> 2.46.0
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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